That was my first rabbit, and my first chance toīut only as a single shot. 22 and some shells, and he would let me shoot it. I spotted a cottontail sitting between the blades of a disk. I remember on a very cold and snowy day in 1950, my uncle Cato, my dad and I were working cattle in our small farm feedlot. By age seven, I had moved up to the powerful Daisy pump BB gun and was regularly bringing home pigeons and an occasional quail for the pot. When I was five, I got a Daisy BB gun, single shot, for my birthday and wore it out in a year and a half. Mom said I was born with a gun in my hand, and the first thing I remember doing was hunting a honey bee and catching it. Dad moved us to a farm west of Vinton when I was seven, with mom yelling all the way. Dad and I never agreed on much from the time I was a little kid. 22 rifle were all the guns a man ever needed. He occasionally declared that a 12 gauge shotgun and a. I don’t think it was new, because it had the original peep sight replaced with an open site.ĭad came back from WWII as a Truman Democrat. Army in September 1941 (just three months before Pearl Harbor),Ī Remington Model 341-P Sportmaster. He spent a lot of time doing his civic duties, including being a Scout Master for Boy Scouts, helping to organize a church, and eventually running for county attorney and winning as a Republican. But business was not great for a new lawyer in 1937. He set up his law practice in Vinton, Iowa, the county seat, and proceeded to try to make a living as The Great Depression wound down. My dad, Don Boddicker, graduated from the University of Iowa Law School in 1937. Just 5 pounds and commensurately slender and easy to carry, one could not hopeįor nicer way to spend a spring morning. On a recent range trip, I managed to put all 15 roundsįrom the tube into just 1.5” at 50 yards, which is good enough to be amusingĪnd is certainly viable for small game hunting at that distance. Runs about 4.25 pounds, but it is quite crisp and one can do some decent Target acquisition, but we are talking about leisure shooting, right? Again, not the best for aging eyes or fast Its straight-grained American black-walnut stock, sansĬheckering and any kind of cheekpiece, means that it will forever use its iron, The bullet nose, theoretically improving accuracy. It essentially guides the round without touching the rear of the chamber with Photo by David TongĮven more technically interesting is the fact that it also hasĪ cartridge lifter system that pretty much precludes bullet damage on feeding, as One of the locking lugs is the root of the bolt handle. It is unique in that it features dual opposed locking lugs, located to the middle rear of the one-piece bolt body, which is left in the white. The Model 341 has an overall length of 43.25" with its 24" barrel, the length of pull is 13.375" and it weighs five pounds. Highly finished “Peerless” grade, as well as a “341SB,” which was a smooth boreįor use with diminutive. Myģ41-A is the Standard Model and there were five other grades, including the Remington built approximately 131,000 Model 341's between 19, in several grades. Even in this age of ridiculousĪmmunition costs, a brick of 500. Relaxing in that one does not have to keep track of small, expensive, andĮasily damaged or lost detachable magazines. 22 usually holds 15 rounds of Long RifleĪmmunition, which is more than just about all current. 22s, much preferring the simple and elegant tubular Hunting and my local dealer came up with a little gem of a shooter, which isīox magazine fed centerfire pistols and rifles, but I digress from my 22 LR rifle out to do a bit of plinking or small game The semi-automatic service pistol, there are few ways of relaxing better than Of forged and machined blued steel and walnut was the only stock option. Necessary to craft fine production guns was still affordable, long guns were crafted The watershed years of traditional arms production, in that the hand labor The years between the Great War and >Pearl Harbor were World War were a watershed in American gun making. Pre-War Precision: Remington’s Model 341-A.
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